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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS OF 
“ Officers in the Army or Navy , or in the Reserve Forces , loho are ineligible to 
become honorary members, may obtain the periodical publications of the 
Institution on the annual payment in advance of 15s.” 
Alteration in Bide F. |printed in italics ):— 
“V. II.B.H. the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief to be Patron and 
President of the Institution. The Inspector-General of Artillery, the 
Commandant of the Garrison, the Director of Artillery and Stores, and 
the Deputy Adjutant-General, to be Vice-Presidents. The affairs of the 
Institution to be under the direction of a Committee, consisting of the 
Deputy Adjutant- General, the Director of Artillery and Stores, the Director 
of Artillery Studies , and seventeen officers elected at the annual general 
meeting, of idiom one may be a General Officer on the unemployed list , and 
if so, then five others shall be Regimental Field Officers; but if there be no 
such General Officer on the Committee , then six of the members shall be 
Regimental Field Officers. There shall also be one Medical Officer. The 
senior officer present to tahe the chair. The Medical Officer to retire every 
two years. Two General or Field Officers and three members to retire 
annually by rotation, and none of these to be eligible for re-election until the 
expiration of one year after leaving office .” 
Tlie addition to Rule II. was carried unanimously, but the words 
“ at the discretion of the Committee ” were, at the recommendation of the 
Chairman, inserted between the words “ may” and “ obtain.” 
On the question of the proposed alteration to Rule V., the Chairman 
requested that his dissent might be recorded, and it was moved by 
Lieut. H. D._ Dunlop, and seconded by Lieut. Riall, u that Rule V. shall 
remain as at present.” This was negatived, and the original proposal 
was then put and carried.* 
3. The following proposition was then put by the Committee , and carried 
unanimously :— 
“ That, taking into consideration the active part taken by them in the foundation 
of the Institution, and the anxiety for its welfare and best interests which 
they have at all times evinced, the following officers be invited to become 
perpetual Vice-Presidents of the Institution, viz.:— 
Major-General P. M. Eardley-Wilmot, F.R.S. 
» W. J. Smythe, F.R.S. 
„ J. II. Lefroy, F.R.S.” 
* At subsequent meetings of the Committee of the Institution, held on July 29 and August 8, 
1872, a correspondence which had taken place between the Committee and the Commandant of 
the Garrison and the Deputy Adjutant-General of the Eoyal Artillery was read ; and in accordance 
with the order of His Eoyal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, the portion of the 
alteration referring to the removal from the Committee of H.E.H. the Field Marshal Commanding- 
in-Chief, the Inspector-General of Artillery, the Commandant of the Garrison, and the Assistant 
Adjutant-General, was cancelled. The Brigade Major, and the Secretary, Department of the 
Director of Artillery and Stores, were at the same time re-elected to serve on the Committee. 
